Utah's sad history
Wellsville in Cache County will become home to the equivalent of an American Indian holocaust museum.
An exhibit commemorating the 1863 Bear River Massacre, one of the largest massacres of American Indians, will be created at the American West Heritage Center.
Tourism Cares, which promotes responsible tourism, is putting up $10,000 to commemorate the massacre of 300 to 500 Shoshone Indians (American hero Sacagawea's tribe) by California volunteers. New (and grisly) evidence indicates the death toll was higher than previously thought.
David Sidwell, heritage center program director, says:
"As a museum and center for history in our area, our goal is to present important stories. The Bear River Massacre is not a pretty story, but it's an important story. It is a story that should be told."
2 Comments:
Thank you, thank you, thank you, for sharing this. A very worthy memorial to a great people, our fellow human beings, who deserve to be remembered with dignity. Let's teach our children proper history and to love one another.
History should be truthful,always the truth not what the writer would like it to be but as it was.
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